diff --git a/misc/py-uhi/Makefile b/misc/py-uhi/Makefile
index e264d77e5a07..99389f08a274 100644
--- a/misc/py-uhi/Makefile
+++ b/misc/py-uhi/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 PORTNAME=	uhi
-DISTVERSION=	0.5.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	1.1.1
 CATEGORIES=	misc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Universal Histogram Interface
-WWW=		https://uhi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+WWW=		https://uhi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ \
+		https://github.com/Scikit-HEP/uhi
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy1>=1.16:math/py-numpy1@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fastjsonschema>0:devel/py-fastjsonschema@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatch-vcs>0:devel/py-hatch-vcs@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy1>=1.16:math/py-numpy1@${PY_FLAVOR}
-TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}boost-histogram>=1.0:misc/py-boost-histogram@${PY_FLAVOR}
+TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}boost-histogram>=1.0:misc/py-boost-histogram@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}dependency-groups>0:devel/py-dependency-groups@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fastjsonschema>0:devel/py-fastjsonschema@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hist>0:misc/py-hist@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>0:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-USES=		compiler:c++14-lang python
+USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
 
-pre-configure: # uhi is officially built with "build" (https://github.com/pypa/build), but this is easily circumvented with this simple setup.py
-	@( \
-		${ECHO} "from setuptools import setup" && \
-		${ECHO} "setup()" \
-	) > ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
+# tests as of 1.1.1: fail to run, see https://github.com/scikit-hep/uhi/issues/235
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/misc/py-uhi/distinfo b/misc/py-uhi/distinfo
index 8bb0dd8277d7..3a2b9032741e 100644
--- a/misc/py-uhi/distinfo
+++ b/misc/py-uhi/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1730971332
-SHA256 (uhi-0.5.0.tar.gz) = 9559bbf2f38f18a2fc1d8f73139396068f88f898d6a9afc833207ec0fd59a31c
-SIZE (uhi-0.5.0.tar.gz) = 25769
+TIMESTAMP = 1777313792
+SHA256 (uhi-1.1.1.tar.gz) = d39c4dc162d691bcb443529a9cf5fe99b11e14a387cdf8284154cc25870d2ff0
+SIZE (uhi-1.1.1.tar.gz) = 49651